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For as good as Eddy Curry has been....
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attaboy2005
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1/9/2006  10:31 PM
Granted these guys shoot alot of bombs which give off long rebounds, but I saw times when he had position and Petro got the rebound over his back. For most of the game he had 3 boards. we wont win most games giving up that many boards, especially not to a team that shoots as well as them.

Well, that is usually called an "over the back" foul on Petro in the NBA, but Eddie doesn't those kind of calls in his favor.

The teams were also shooting well, so there wasn't many rebounds to be had by either team, I wouldn't sweat the fact Eddie only had 5 in the time he played.
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Masterplan
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1/9/2006  10:50 PM
it was the first game in a while when we didn't outrebound the other side as a team, so everyone except maybe ariza needs to take the sonics game as a heads up in that department.

"why that big head man wearing black tights on his legs?"

"yes baby, it makes him look slimmer! And helps his circulation to aid his leg problems."

is that what the leggings are for? circulation? i was wondering... thought it might have been to get him to sweat off a few more pounds or something.
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1/10/2006  2:35 AM
Posted by Bonn1997:

My guess might be that in the past coaches have tried to get Eddy to work on too many things at once. He's needed to work on passing out of double teams, rebounding, help defense, shot-blocking, going left on offense. Right now it looks like they have him working on rebounding and intensity on defense. That's enough for the time being. If/when he masters that, then he can work on passing.

I don't even think it's that. They work with ALL of the players in that asset. Notice how Crawford seems to be getting some more boards, or at least when he gets a lot of playing time. The only Knicks who I can think of that doesn't get a lot of rebounds is Steph, Curry and Davis, but Davis is just old. He used to bea very good rebounder. But you're right that I think the coaching staff is just working on one thing at a time with Curry. Notice he's not blowing many layups anymore? Notice he's hitting his free throws, or at least more of them. For this entire season, I think they have been and will continue to just purely work on helping Eddie put the ball in the basket and make low post scoring an instinct for him. Watch as he continues to put up better and better scoring and sometimes rebounding numbers this season, he comes into camp in great shape, and you know what's gonna happen? LB is going to destroy the shizat out of him b/c of his passing. You guessed it, this is when they'll work on his passing. His scoring numbers are going to be way down again for a good portion of the season and then eventually, at the end of next season or the start of the season after that, Curry will break out. This is, of course, his health stays at it's best and he keeps his head on his shoulders and stays in shape.

This is how you develop these kind of players. It takes a lot of time. I have a feeling they are doing similar things with Jamal and the rest of the Knicks rookies.
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1/10/2006  3:08 AM
I think if Curry stays healthy he will break out next year. This year is one giant training camp for this team. Which is great, regardless of the record. Thats why I say don't trade anybody for the sake of marginal talent improvements. Let these players play under Brown and his system for 82 games, so by next year the team is a well oiled machine that wil win 45 games just because of the system.

Curry is already putting up much improved rebounding numbers, and has come up with some key blocks in crunch time, when the refs tend to let the body contact downlow go, if the block is clean uptop. Those kind of lategame manup blocks are more important then the inflated blocks numbers of weakseide shotblockers that usually get their blocks outside of crucnthime. Does anybody remember when Spree blocked a guy straighup in a Bucks game 4-5 years ago when we came back from like a 20 pt deficit to win the game? That was when we still had Ewing, so I dunno if anybody else remembers that play. Anyways its those kind of blocks that you like to see from your guys in lategame situations.
A glimmer of hope maybe?!?
For as good as Eddy Curry has been....

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